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Word: backgrounding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no background music, but the theme from Star Wars would be appropriate. On a white grid that rolls off into blue infinity, the name Gary Hart appears in silvery letters. With the aid of computer animation, the screen seems to become a book, flipping open page by page. Page 1: a close-up shot of a youthful-looking Hart in a coat and tie speaking directly into the camera. "The politicians of yesterday are trading our future by asking our price instead of challenging our idealism." Page 2: Hart framed from fore head to chin by the television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Video Games | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...portrayed the candidate as both accessible and presidential. One showed him reeling in a fish and walking down a country lane ("I'm sort of a farm kid"). Another showed him in blue suit, red tie and white shirt, pledging sternly to cut the Reagan deficit. In the background, uplifting music suggested strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Video Games | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Darman's ascendancy is all the more intriguing for his Eastern Establishment background. The oldest child of a New England industrialist, Darman earned his B. A. and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard and entered Government during the Nixon years under the tutelage of his fellow Brahmin, Elliot Richardson. Darman's various jobs in five Cabinet departments included a stint at Commerce, where he impressed Baker, then an Assistant Secretary, with his ability to analyze vast tangles of information. Baker chose Darman in 1981 as his assistant, says Press Spokesman Larry Speakes, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Left-Hand man | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...position of very strong power. There may be a tendency to see him as just a business guy, but I've talked to him about guarding the integrity of the game, and I'm more than satisfied. Though he does not have an extensive baseball background, he has an affection for the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Commissioner on Deck | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...from the living characters, but from the ghost of a man whom the protagonist killed in a fit of rage at the beginning of the story. It is not easy to play a character whom everyone hates and whose mysterious--subtly sexual--personality attracts women regardless of their social background and despite how much they would like to despise him. Mitchell C. Warren's Don Giovanni lacks the spark of charisma to ignite the entire production. His voice, though handsome, is not strong enough to stir our fear or our hatred and is frequently drowned out by the orchestra...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Opera Gigolo | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

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